Billy Halop

• Birth name:

  William Halop

• Date of Birth:

  9 November 1920 New York City, New York, USA

Billy Halop's show business career started on radio in the 1920s and carried over to stage work on Broadway. There, in 1937, he and other teenage cast members of the stage hit "Dead End" were brought to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn for the film version of the play, which was a tremendous hit. Halop and the other teenage cast members went on to do a series of films at Universal and then at Monogram as the Dead End/East Side Kids. Halop left the group in the early 1940s to seek a career on hi... more

Billy Halop's show business career started on radio in the 1920s and carried over to stage work on Broadway. There, in 1937, he and other teenage cast members of the stage hit "Dead End" were brought to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn for the film version of the play, which was a tremendous hit. Halop and the other teenage cast members went on to do a series of films at Universal and then at Monogram as the Dead End/East Side Kids. Halop left the group in the early 1940s to seek a career on his own, but could only land parts in B pictures. His career was also hampered by a long string of marital and financial problems and a lifelong struggle against alcoholism. Toward the end of his career, he had a recurring role as Munson, the owner of the cab company where Archie Bunker worked part time, in "All in the Family" (1971). His last years were spent making a living as a male nurse.